Actor, filmmaker, publisher and poet Piero Heliczer (1937-1993) published his compilation ‘you coul hear the snow melting and falling into the deers mouth’ (printed ‘coul’ instead of ‘could’ on the cover of the book due to insufficient letters d in the typecase) through his own Dead Language Press in 1958 in Paris, where he had…
Ben Schot’s edition ‘The Nothing Door’ consists of 5 small and (partly) hand coloured prints on Fabriano Accademia 200 gr paper. The water coloured prints of drawings by Schot and older engravings by others measure 147 x 100 mm each and are wrapped in black Japanese hand dipped paper. Once unwrapped, the prints can be displayed side by side on the black paper. For each of the 5 sets of this very limited edition Schot cut and folded a jacket, also from Fabriano…
Two cassettes have been added to our choice of Pigface Records releases: Lee Rockey – Sonic Explorer BRASS RING (Pigface 017) Lee Rockey (1926-2002) was a swinging jazz drummer in the 1940s and 50s, who played with Herbie Mann and Neal Hefti among others. In the late 1960s – after he had moved from New…
Textural Sounds is a label run from Portland, Oregon by Cody Brant. Among its LAFMS related releases on cassette and on SoundCloud are pieces and collaborations by John Wiese, Sissy Spacek, Smegma, and Cody’s own band Dead Channel.
Textural 002 is a cassette capturing a radical performance of Joe & Joe (Joe Potts & Joseph Hammer) at The Smell, Los Angeles, 14 February…
This bilingual edition contains the transcript of an interview of Mike Kelley by Thomas Kellein, then director of Kunsthalle Basel, before an audience at Centre d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, 1992. The English conversation is printed in black, its German translation in red. Several landmark works and installations that Kelley put together in the late 1980s/early 1990s…